It was nothing special to see Canada's very right wing prime minister Stephen Harper called upon once more to handle some nasty work for his apparent idol, George W. Bush, the US president.
What made no sense whatsoever, though, was that Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel was also there and was an active participant in Bush's vocal humiliation of South African president Thabo Mbeki.
It has been apparent that Bush never liked Mbeki's intellectual approach to issues.
Mbeki was sumoned into a meeting room yesterday, and it was then and there he found himself the target of fiery language, raised voices amd a gang-up-on-him rapid fire use of shouted questions abput Zimbabwe.
Bush and Merkel are reported to have "competed" with each other in attempts to shatter president Mbeki's stunned but still official responses to their questions. A translator who witnessed the whole spectacle asserts that Bush and Merkel sought to belittle president Mbeki.
Eventually, Mbeki warned Bush and Merkel - and possibly Harper too - that their condemnation of his cautionary diplomacy in Zimbabwe does bode we; for the region. If they truly plan to ask the UN to condemn Zimbabwe and Its president Mugabe, the interference could ignite civil war in Zimbabwe.
What was the German chancellor doing hanging out with disgraced US president Bush? And why wold she risk Germany's reputation as one of the most diplomatic countries in east or west? Finally, will Merkel's performance yesterday cause Germany to suffer in trade with Africa?